Blackburn Rovers vs Millwall - prediction, team news, lineups

Blackburn Rovers volition look to extremity a five-game winless tally erstwhile they play big to Millwall successful Saturday's Championship encounter. 

Meanwhile, the Lions are aiming to bounce backmost from a constrictive decision to Newcastle United successful Tuesday's EFL Cup tie. 

Match preview

Blackburn made an encouraging commencement to the season, taking 4 points from tricky games against Wolverhampton Wanderers and Middlesbrough.

However, they person experienced a dismal tally of 4 losses successful 5 competitory matches (D1), opening with 2-1 defeats to Sheffield United and Queens Park Rangers successful the EFL Cup and Championship respectively.

Blackburn past played retired a goalless matter against newly-promoted Lincoln City, earlier falling to back-to-back defeats against Preston North End and Sheffield United. 

Kristi Montgomery gave Blackburn an aboriginal pb successful Tuesday's location clash against the Blades, but goals from Tom Cannon and Sydie Peck turned the crippled successful Sheffield United's favour earlier the half-time interval, ensuring the contention ended with the aforesaid scoreline arsenic August's EFL Cup tie.

Having mustered conscionable 5 points from six games, Tony Mowbray's broadside caput into the play successful 18th spot successful the Championship table, leaving them a constituent supra the bottommost 3 and 4 points adrift of the apical eight.

Blackburn whitethorn presumption Millwall arsenic the close hostile to fractional their mediocre tally of form, considering they person won each of their past 3 head-to-head meetings, including a 2-0 occurrence successful past season's location encounter. 

After losing successful the playoff semi-finals past term, Millwall are looking to motorboat a caller bid to extremity their 36-year hold for top-flight football. 

The Lions started connected the beforehand ft with consecutive wins without conceding earlier being abruptly stopped successful their tracks by a 5-1 nonaccomplishment distant to Southampton and a 3-0 decision astatine location to Wrexham.

Millwall showed large quality to get backmost connected way with their ain emphatic scoreline, with Lyndon Dykes netting a brace successful a 4-0 triumph against Bolton Wanderers. 

The Lions past turned their attraction to Wednesday's EFL Cup clash against Newcastle United, which appeared to beryllium heading to penalties until Joe Willock struck successful the 81st infinitesimal to condemn Millwall to a third-round exit.

Alex Neil's broadside is focusing backmost connected their league campaign, with the Lions sitting successful eighth spot and 4 points adrift of league leaders West Bromwich Albion with a crippled successful hand.

Adding 3 points to their tally connected Saturday volition beryllium easier said than done for a nine that has won conscionable 1 of their past 12 meetings with Blackburn and has not emerged victorious astatine Ewood Park since March 2013. 

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Team News

Blackburn stay without the services of Scott Wharton, Lewis Miller, Matty Litherland, Augustus Kargbo and Mathias Jorgensen. 

Moussa Baradji could diagnostic successful a matchday squad for the archetypal clip this word aft recovering from an wounded helium sustained successful pre-season. 

Mowbray is besides hopeful that Andri Gujohnsen volition beryllium acceptable to commencement aft sitting retired the midweek decision to Sheffield United with a quad issue.

The visitors, meanwhile, are incapable to telephone upon midfielder Casper De Norre and guardant Josh Coburn, who picked up injuries successful the decision to Wrexham astatine the commencement of the month.

The brace marque up a lengthy wounded database that besides includes Lukas Jensen, Tristan Crama, Alfie Doughty, Mathis Servais, Luke Cundle, Massimo Luongo, and Mihailo Ivanovic.

Winger Mark Sykes could instrumentality to the matchday squad aft missing the past 2 matches owed to concussion protocol.

Blackburn Rovers imaginable starting lineup:

Pears; Alebiosu, Atcheson, McLoughlin, Ribeiro; Montgomery, Morsy; Morishita, Cantwell, Afolayan; Gudjohnsen

Millwall imaginable starting lineup:

Crocombe; Osei-Tutu, Taylor, Cooper, Sturge; Mazou-Sacko, Metcalde; Esse, Arconte, Neghli; Dykes

We say: Blackburn Rovers 1-1 Millwall

Blackburn volition beryllium fearing a 3rd consecutive defeat, but considering they person mislaid conscionable 1 of their erstwhile 12 games against Millwall, we deliberation they whitethorn bash capable to clasp the Lions to a constituent connected Saturday. 

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